seriously - this counts as a landslide victory by almost any way you'd care to measure. Obama took what? over 60% of the electoral collage votes? even if you don't want to use the term 'landslide victory' you still have to admit that it's a crushing defeat for Romney and the Republican party. this is a firm rejection of all things Republican.

Satosuke:50.6% of the popular vote vs 47.9% is hardly a landslide...oh wait, popular votes mean jack shiat. My bad.

Bingo. If we had 90% voter turnout, evenly distributed among people regardless of race, income, or education level, the popular vote would look far more lopsided. As it is, people who would vote Obama or third party in "safe Red" states probably didn't leave their homes. Which is sad, when you consider that local/state elections will affect anyone more directly than federal elections.

For once, I'm going to say I don't care about numbers. If the president had won by one electoral vote, and amassed only 10 more popular votes, I'd personally still call it a landslide given the venom, irrational hatred and scheming to hinder voting put forth by the party of the Dark Side.

clkeagle:Satosuke: 50.6% of the popular vote vs 47.9% is hardly a landslide...oh wait, popular votes mean jack shiat. My bad.

Bingo. If we had 90% voter turnout, evenly distributed among people regardless of race, income, or education level, the popular vote would look far more lopsided. As it is, people who would vote Obama or third party in "safe Red" states probably didn't leave their homes. Which is sad, when you consider that local/state elections will affect anyone more directly than federal elections.

Funny, that supports my idea that the average citizen shouldn't bother voting for the president. I think we should only be allowed to vote for our state and/or city representatives, and they in turn would be the ones voting for the president. Definitely not an ironclad idea, but it might actually give our rep. and senate elections more gravitas.

tomcatadam:Satosuke: Reinforces the point that the electoral college is a broken system.

It's certainly better than a full FPTP system, at the very least.

I'd either go with my incremental idea above, or some sort of second vote option system with a threshold popular vote percentage needed to secure the election, where if one's party is obviously out of it by a wide margin, one can switch their vote to a second option on the ballot. Again, not perfect either, but both the EC and FPTP ensure either disastrous minority rule or the inevitability of a two-party system.

Rwa2play:doyner: Smelly McUgly: I called this, but I think I missed my popular vote prediction (50.2 to 48.6). Dang, no free month of TF for me. :(

DY is yet to make his final call, but the winner was projected already.

Doesn't matter to me either way really; just the fact Obama won AND the RWers crying in their spilled milk is joy enough. :)

Yeah, when I realized I was out of the running my efforts in tabulating became a labor of love. The way I see it, the mental collapse of right-wingers since Tuesday makes us all TotalFarkers on the inside.